Default Settings

IP Address: DHCP client (If there is no DHCP server, it will default to 192.168.11.150.)

Date and Time

Super Capacitor Backup

Initialized value : January 1, 1970

Root access

Console Administrator: root

Password: kuroadmin

SWAT

SWAT User: root

Password: kuroadmin

Samba Share Folder

Workgroup Name: KUROBOX

/mnt/mtd: mtd device (NAND FLASH),

/mnt/disk1: share (HDD)

Accessing Partions from Samba

There is no FTPd to ftp files into the KuroBox at this point. But there is Samba!

The flash memory is available at

smb://kuroip/mtd_device

The newly installed hard drive is at

smb://kuroip/share

You could stop here if you wanted to, after all you have a network share with samba/swat for administration.

Install a root file system (Distribution)

The following procedure creates the following partition scheme, and untars a root file system onto p2 (/dev/sda2). Somehow it rewrites the uboot variables allowing a boot from the hard drive. Console access would be the preferred way to change these uboot settings. Netcat does not seem to work to access uboot. Serial Console access would be a must [1].

p1 : /boot (16MB)

p2 : /rootfs (3GB)

p4 : extend (others)

p5 : swap (128MB)

p6 : /share (others)

WARNING!

The provided documentation says that this process is not recommended.

Buffalo Provided Developer System

Connect up the blank unformatted hard drive and power on.

Access the Samba share on the kurobox named mtd_device

Copy over these files to the samba share from the provided CD-ROM

hddrootfs.tar.gz (this file probably could be replaced with an alternate rootfs, see below)

FreeLink (Debian)

WARNING!

There is a possibility that you could brick your NAS with these instructions. Please make sure that you read the entire page carefully. this is as of yet untested, however the method has been reported to work by a few japanese kuroboxpro users.